Character Model Previews of Five New Models, Tom Chilton Interview

As we always do, we've put together previews of the new character models' faces, poses and animation - check them all out below. We've got Human Male, Night Elf Male, Troll Female, Troll Male and Tauren Female models for you today. You can also check out videos of all the new Warlords of Draenor models coming in 6.0 on our YouTube Channel - subscribe to be notified of new videos!

Human Male

Night Elf Male

Troll Female

Troll Male

Tauren Female

Tom Chilton Interview

Another interview has surfaced with Game Director Tom Chilton, from Gamescom 2014. This is from Gameplanet, and you can read the full interview on their site, but a summary follows:

One of the most significant changes to WoW in recent years has been the opening up of different content types to more players.

Grommash is now a character who is uniting the orc clans and taking on a quest to conquer the world

Raiding in Warlords will be more than just orcs - the first raid zone is ogres.

Tom thinks WoW will make it to 20 years - as long as there are players asking for more content there will be more content made.

The next expansion is already in progress

The expansion following that (8.0) is a choice between a couple of options, they have six or seven different ideas for future ones that could be used in part. There's at least 10 years more content.

Response to the beta has been satisfactory - as the builds become more complete players can see the developers' vision better.

Warlords is certainly trying to bring back lapsed players and make things easier for new players

WoW's demographic has become a lot older, and therefore more casual, so the game has to adapt

Tom's personal highlight would probably be the original development of the talent system

Comments

Comment by Menardis

Night Elves look kinda weird. The laughing animation is incredible though am i the only one that thought about... Hahaha No?

And yes something about their bodies seems to have changed as well. Slimmer perhaps?

Btw he looks like he's pouting. Others are pissed off but this guy HuffI took a good look at teh model in item viewer and well it seems like they look okay. Faces could use a little tweak (so that we would be able to recognise our characters) (and fixing UseStandingLoop option here XD) Adding a bulge would be nice XD But that's just me remembering Hulk from Avengers =)

Last thing, I am looking forward to playing it even more (since NE are my favorite race) I just hope that my trans headgear will no more show up with a hole in the back of the head =_=

Yeah, I liked my determined look rather than looking 100% pissed or just angry. It doesn't really suit a healing priest!

The whole hair clipping thing is annoying but it happens on other races and other races such as trolls have had naked feet for 10 years lol.

Comment by Capcy

on 2014/08/26 20:37:42

I'm liking the overall changes to the human and night elf males, but the facial options are a bit bland at the moment. The human male beard juts out way too far in my opinion. Hopefully there will be an option later to have a less obnoxious beard instead. I'd also like to see them put in a proper stubble option.

Love the new models but little disappointed in the NE males full beard, its so flat.

It really does. I hope it's an oversight that they intend to fix.

By all but respect, *&^% the current Talent System, Mr Tom Chillton.

Heresy.

Comment by Arraya

on 2014/08/26 20:47:07

The expansion following that (8.0) is a choice between a couple of options, they have six or seven different ideas for future ones that could be used in part. There's at least 10 years more content.

Intriguing, I wonder... Emerald Dream... Argus... the other side of Azeroth... so many possibilities

Comment by eVeRiUs

on 2014/08/26 20:51:34

Is it just me or male Night Elves are.. bad? :s

Comment by Kylini

on 2014/08/26 20:52:42

If you remember the arcatraz, Skyriss hints at exactly that. There's also the emerald dream and nightmare that's probably gonna need our help purifying.

Comment by cameronangelle

on 2014/08/26 21:37:19

I want the female trolls to have face paint options too!

Comment by Helliknight

on 2014/08/26 21:44:26

I love the female troll really great work :)

Nicely done ^^

Comment by OMFGsus

on 2014/08/26 21:54:31

Anyone else think it's kinda silly for Chilton to say that there is 10 years of content that can be made? Yes, this is WoW's 10th anniversary... but we've had 8-14 months of dead time on the final patch each expac, so that would make it only ~6 years of content so far. Just saying.

Comment by Ty52

on 2014/08/26 22:05:08

I liked how the new male human looked in the artcraft thing but these ones all look horrible....like someone already said they look like mugshots =/

Comment by visconwow

on 2014/08/26 22:07:19

"WoW's demographic has become a lot older, and therefore more casual" LOL

Comment by ultragod

on 2014/08/26 22:22:46

The troll ears look great! I know that's weird, but not as weird as the fact I wish the female troll has a little more donk to her.

Comment by Infamushium

on 2014/08/26 22:44:43

"WoW's demographic has become a lot older, and therefore more casual" LOL

It's true though if you really think about it. A lot of the older crowd don't want to sit behind a computer for 6+ hours so they can raid hardcore like they did years ago.

Besides how many top guilds have retired or quit in the last few years?

Comment by Nithling

on 2014/08/26 22:46:36

Lol. I like how the human males look like mugshots.

And some of the photos also have that "out-of-work pornstar" look to them.

Comment by jhjsaat

on 2014/08/26 22:49:29

Home the human males air is not final my main (for almost 9 years) is a Human Pally and if he will look like the preview that WoWhead giving me now I fear I may quit the game!

Comment by zassou

on 2014/08/26 22:51:20

They all look pretty amazing. I love the Trolls. I still can't get over the vast improvement in the human male though... god he was ugly. Still an ugly human (for the horde!) but it's a better kinda ugly. ;) Great job Art Department!

Comment by TosuroWoW

on 2014/08/26 22:52:26

Yes please! Bring back the old talent trees!

Comment by Talyrius

on 2014/08/26 23:04:52

Asking again:There is so much wasted space in the side by side comparisons that it's hard to make out details! Next time, can you zoom in on the models (by cropping) while you're editing your video together?

Comment by Dbase

on 2014/08/26 23:45:23

Faces still need some work. I am really not liking the Troll facial expressions. (Scowls).Eyes, Mouth, Forehead: these are the critical areas.

Comment by Varulv

on 2014/08/26 23:57:34

My hero is John Lord. I can finally be John Lord.

Thanks for the new human heads. :)

Comment by Kyreth

on 2014/08/27 01:05:38

Yeah, im with you there, i never watch those videos cause i cant really see the details :( Hope they do crop and zoom to the actual model so its closer :)